Re: L-date fields

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave, At 09:30 AM 9/16/97 +0600, you wrote:

-snip-

>An American company with a very large UK subsidiary where I worked for a
>time used either the mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy format depending which
>country's MIS department had produced the report. As these reports were
>often distributed both ways across the Atlantic the scope for confusion
>was enormous. My solution was to print the month as a 3 character
>abbreviation. It then didn't matter whether you saw 04 Jun 1997 or Jun
>04 1997: no ambiguity, and psychologically more acceptable to most users
>than yyyy-mm-dd.
>
>Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan

One of the date APIs (ILE only) let's you convert a date into any of
gazillions of character formats--very useful, I think.

Also, isn't there a 'LOCALE' concept in the 400 somewhere? C programming
has has this for some time, so that you can get local specifications for
things like date & time.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480
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